Improvement in cultivators



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM W. MARSH AND HARRISON MCINTYRE, OF SYOAMORE ILLINO IS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CU LTIVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,969, dated July 16,1872.

SPECIFICATION.

We, WILLIAM W. MARSH and HARRrsoN MOINTYRE, of Sycamore, in the countyof De Kalb and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in (Jultivators, of which the following is a fulldescription, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawing making apart of this specification, in which- Figure l is a vertical centralsection; Fig. 2, a top view of the bars which support the drivers seat,with the seat removed; Fig. 3, a detail, showing the seat; Fig. 4, anelevation of the foot-rest.

Our invention relates to mounted cultivators and consists in certaindevices by means of which the foot-rests can be adjusted as may berequired in cultivating corn in different stages of its growth.

In the drawing, A is one-half of the tongue; B, the axle; 0, one of theplow-beams; and D D, standards to which the shovels are attached; all ofwhich parts are made in any suitable manner. We use a split tongue, or atongue made of two bars brought together at their forward ends. E E aretwo bars, upon the rear end of which the seat S is supported. The bar Eis provided with a series of holes, a, and is secured to A; the otherbar is similar to E, and is secured to the other part of the tongue. Theouter ends of the two bars E E are brought near together, leaving aspace, f, between them, as represented in Fig. 2. The seat is held inplace by means of a bolt and nut, and the seat can be moved forward orback, as may be necessary to balance the'machine. By means of the holesa the bars E E can be adjusted in different positions. 0 is a foot-rest,which, as shown in Fig. 7

1, is secured to the top of the beam 0, the part d being below the beam.The drivers seat can be placed in a lower position than shown, and thefoot-rest 0 can be bolted to the under side of the beam 0; or thedrivers seat can be elevated and the foot-rest placed upon the top ofthe beam in the position shown in Fig. 4; or the rest might be securedto the under side of the beam, its position remaining the same as inthis Fig. 4.. We thus furnish not less than four adjustments for thefoot-rests c, and when this rest is in the position shown in Fig. 4 thefoot of the driver can be placed either at the part (I or at the part 6.The bars E E and the foot-rests each being secured in place by a bolt,the required adjustments can be easily made.

By the use of these devices, when the corn is first cultivated the seatof the driver can be so adjusted that his feet will be very near theground, so that either by the use of his feet or with his hands he canremove earth from plants, if necessary; at the same time the footrestscan be correspondingly lowered, so that the operator can move the beamslaterally with his feet.

The seat and foot-rests can be elevated from time to time, as requiredin different stages of the growth of the corn.

As represented, the bars E E are curved downward, so that by turningthem over the seat will be elevated.

What we claim as new is as follows:

The adjustable foot-rests 0, when constructed and attached to theplow-beams substantially as and for the purposes specified.

WILLIAM W. MARSH. HARRISON MCINTYRE. Witnesses:

R. L. DIVINE, A. O. GoLToN.

